Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North - S. R. Crockett; Walter Scott

It struck me that there must be many oldsters in the world who, for the sake of their own youth, would like the various Sweethearts who now inhabit their nurseries, to read Sir Walter with the same breathless eagerness as they used to do—how many years agone? It is chiefly for their sakes that I have added several interludes, telling how Sweetheart, Hugh John, Sir Toady Lion, and Maid Margaret received my petty larcenies from the full chest of the Wizard.

At any rate, Red Cap succeeded in one case—why should he not in another? I claim no merit in the telling of the tales, save that, like medicines well sugar-coated, the patients mistook them for candies and—asked for more.

The books are open. Any one can tell Scott's stories over again in his own way. This is mine.

S. R. CROCKETT.

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	Certain Small Pharaohs that knew not Joseph	[1]
RED CAP TALES FROM "WAVERLEY"
The	First Tale:
i.	good-bye to waverley-honour	[11]
ii.	the enchanted castle	[16]
iii.	the baron and the bear	[21]
	the first interlude of action	[28]
The	Second Tale:
i.	the cattle-lifting	[31]
ii.	the robber's cave	[35]
	the second interlude	[41]
The	Third Tale:
i.	the chief of the mac-ivors and the chief's sister	[46]
ii.	misfortunes never come single	[55]
	the third interlude—being mainly a few words upon heroes	[62]
The	Fourth Tale:
	here and there among the heather	[64]
	interlude of sticking-plaster	[78]
The	Fifth Tale:
	the white cockade	[81]
The	Sixth Tale:
	black looks and bright swords	[94]
	interlude of brevity	[104]
The	Last Tale:
	the baron's surprise	[105]
RED CAP TALES FROM "GUY MANNERING"
	Where we told the Second Tale	[123]
The	First Tale:
i.	witchcraft and wizardry	[124]
	interlude of interrogation	[140]
The	Second Tale:
i.	happy dominie sampson	[143]
ii.	dandie dinmont	[150]
iii.	in the lion's mouth	[158]
	interlude of locality	[162]
The	Third Tale:
	the return of dirk hatteraick	[166]
The	Fourth Tale:
	the fight in the cave	[185]
	interlude of consultation	[204]
RED CAP TALES FROM "ROB ROY"
The	First Tale:
	frank the highwayman	[211]
	interlude of discussion	[236]
The	Second Tale:
i.	in the toils of rashleigh	[241]
ii.	rob roy at last	[254]
iii.	the bailie fights with fire	[267]
iv.	the drowning of the spy	[276]
	interlude of expostulation	[284]
The	Third Tale:
i.	in the hands of the philistines	[288]
ii.	the escape	[294]
iii.	the death of rashleigh	[307]
RED CAP TALES FROM "THE ANTIQUARY"
The	First Tale:
i.	the mysterious mr. lovel	[326]
ii.	the night of storm	[337]
	interlude of warning	[352]
The	Second Tale:
i.	lovel fights a duel	[354]
ii.	the seekers of treasure	[370]
iii.	misticot's grave	[377]
	a quite superfluous interlude	[389]
The	Third Tale:
i.	the earl's secret	[396]
ii.	the mother's vengeance	[400]
iii.	the heir of glenallan	[408]

CONTENTS

RED CAP TALES FROM "WAVERLEY"

RED CAP TALES FROM "GUY MANNERING"

RED CAP TALES FROM "ROB ROY"

RED CAP TALES FROM "THE ANTIQUARY"